Love and Knowledge: Emotions in Feminist Epistemology by McKenzie

Epistomology

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The study of the nature and grounds of knowledge.

We Agree

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Emotions do play a role in how we see things, interpret them, and how we reason.

Summary

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Emotion is not only desired in reasoning, but it may also be unavoidable. Emotion holds value. Emotions are what allow us to value one thing over another. Emotions give us a moral sense of right and wrong. Knowledge and emotion effect each other.

The Trolley Dilemma

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Emotions make us human

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"Emotions prompt us to act appropriately, to approach some people and situations and to avoid others, to caress or cuddle, fight or flee. Without emotion, human life would be unthinkable."

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die.clay.io/game/die

The Horse and Chariot

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"In Phaedrus, Plato portrayed emotions, such as anger or curiosity, as irrational urges (horses) that must always be controlled by reason (the charioteer). On this model, the emotions were not seen as needing to be totally surppressed, but rather as needing direction by reason."

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Alison Jagger, 1989

Morality

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"If we had no emotional responses to the world, it is inconceivable that we should ever come to value one state of affairs more highly than another."

Main Point

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"By construing emotion as epistemologically subversive, the Western tradition has tended to obscure the vital role of emotion in the construction of knowledge"

Counter

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Feelings can change, facts can't. You can feel differently about something than somebody else, but that doesn't make either of you right or wrong. Your feelings can't change facts.

Outlaw Emotions

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Socially unacceptable emotions.

Hearing a sexist or racist joke can bring up outlaw emotions.

They motivate new investigations in society by helping us to find out why a certain group feels a certain way.

Through outlaw emotions, we see unjustness.

Too Emotional

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Irrational
Unstable
Shut them down
Toughen them up

Conclusion

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Emotions are good. They help gain knowledge and see things in ways we've never seen them. Outlaw emotions help us realize that some "socially acceptable" things, shouldn't be socially acceptable. Emotions are what make us human, and give us the ability to see right from wrong.

Outlaw Emotion Examples

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Slavery
Feminism
Civil Rights
Marriage Equality

What are emotions?

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Feelings or involuntary reactions.

Not just feelings.

McKenzie White and Lindsey Martin

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